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Gazboy
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81 months
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The owner of the car is mighty busy so has someone else posting a blog in a closed forum, which I'm copying (with permission) to here  The car is in Norway. Stiansen said: The project has just started. The car will be built for timeattack, and will be used in a racing class called Roadsport and other trackdays etc. The target is high power and low weight. It will have a complete 1350-hp enginge with AEM ecu and all supporting mods, and the whole body will be in carbon-fibre. Not sure how it will look yet, but probably the rmm-lip and wing and a nice paint-job. Specs on the engine: Carillo Rods CP Pistons HKS 272`s Greddy Camgears and belt Custom intake Boostlogic T6 turbokit with GT4780 turbo 5" Downpipe Titanium exhaust Titan Motorsports fuel-system with 1200cc`s 3x Walbro 255 fuel pumps It dynoed 912 rwhp last year at 2,2 bar and 6500 rpm and 98 octane. Transmission is the V160 Getrag. Differential: Cusco 2-way This is how the car looked like before:     Stiansen said: Post exceeds preview limits so fingers crossed the pics work...
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nats1rt
228 posts
29 months
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snotrag
6,564 posts
41 months
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Typo - you appear to have written One thousand three hundred and fifty horsepower... 
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nats1rt
228 posts
29 months
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snotrag said: Typo - you appear to have written One thousand three hundred and fifty horsepower... I saw that as well, something's clearly wrong. Nuclear power station under the bonnet?
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Gazboy
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37,640 posts
81 months
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Stiansen said: Due to norwegian laws to have the car registered with this setup we have to convert it from RHD to LHD. This will be done as soon as possible, and if any of you have a EURO-spec dashboard for sale, PM me New update We have now got a deal on a LHD chassis for the conversion. We`re going to remove the firewall on the Supra, and replace it with this LHD firewall and dashboard. The car will be sand-blasted on the underside, inside and in the engine bay, to get it 110% clean. Here`s some pics of the chassis.    Stiansen said: Stiansen said: Stiansen said:
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adamfraser
392 posts
33 months
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Gazboy said: 1350-hp enginge Jesus f**king christ!!
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VxDuncan
2,245 posts
64 months
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Don't get the point of replacing the panels with carbon - there will be minimal weight saving (if any - 2mm carbon panels may actually add weight over thin steel sheet), and it'll be a nightmare in a crash - possibly even dangerous. If say it rolled, rather than deform the carbon would shatter. The shards would do some serious damage. If the chassis was an optimised Carbon monocoque, with the laminate planned where the strength was need it would be great, but simply hanging carbon panels off a steel frame is just a pointless waste of money.
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BCA
7,417 posts
87 months
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Is it just me that thinks this is actually quite silly?? Even on slicks its not going to be particularily tractable? Doesnt look like it was running any trick tyres before, so it must be slower than stock as surely the power just spins away?
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Wadeski
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43 months
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err....not really. i very much doubt it was slower than stock 
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Baffled Spoon
1,472 posts
24 months
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BCA said: Is it just me that thinks this is actually quite silly?? Even on slicks its not going to be particularily tractable? Doesnt look like it was running any trick tyres before, so it must be slower than stock as surely the power just spins away? You don't have to use all the power all the time, but when you can  
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Gazboy
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37,640 posts
81 months
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BCA said: Is it just me that thinks this is actually quite silly?? Even on slicks its not going to be particularily tractable? Doesnt look like it was running any trick tyres before, so it must be slower than stock as surely the power just spins away? Nope. The choice of turbo & output was questioned by everyone else too. The silver JDM car is just a donor chassis, the red German car is going to be donating it's LHD parts and a black JDM car is donating it's engine and gearbox before being sold as a rolling chassis.  The carbon car runs rediculously wide wheels and tyres -11x18 with 315/30R18 Rear 9,5x18 with 265/35R18 Front Hoosier Slicks on both
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Gazboy
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81 months
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Stiansen said: Stiansen said: |
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sniff petrol
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42 months
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Gazboy said: Hoosier Slicks on both Those Hoosier slicks are road legal in certain States according to their sales guy at the Autosport show.
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Gazboy
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37,640 posts
81 months
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Gazboy
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81 months
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Stiansen said: The OEM rear fenders have been cut off, here`s how it looks   And at last, the latest pictures. The rear fenders is test mounted, but will be mounted perhaps tomorrow When it`s finished it will go to the RHD->LHD conversion as fast as possible     For those who wondered how the layers on the parts is; 1 X Twill 2x2, 245g. 2 X DB 200g (multiaksial) 1 X DB 450g (multiaksial) 1 X Fiberglass Fine RW 200g Resin: Epoxy from SP Systems, for Scrimp. Ampreg 20 Glue: Araldite 2015 (black) The car will be finished at HPComposites at sunday, the rear fenders are now mounted and the roof is fine Will post more pics of that later Meanwhile the firewall from the LHD-chassis have been cut out and are now ready to get to the carbon-Supra   Pics of the rear fenders mounted on the car, not much left now   Just to add some info about the weight of the parts, The OEM rear fenders: 6,8 kg each The CF rear fenders: 3,3 kg each The OEM roof and A-pillars: 6,5 kg The CF roof and A-pillars: 3,2 kg New pics The car is transported to Ourom Auto for the Rhd-Lhd conversion Better pic of the rear fender mounted too   
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busta
1,366 posts
63 months
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So let me get this straight. 1350 hp and they put that much effort into saving 6.8kg? It'll use the same weight in fuel in a minute. Why bother?
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KB_S1
3,113 posts
59 months
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busta said: So let me get this straight. 1350 hp and they put that much effort into saving 6.8kg? It'll use the same weight in fuel in a minute. Why bother? 10.2kg so far. Plus doors, front wings and bonnet to go too.
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Jderh
5,484 posts
37 months
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That is an ever so slightly insane project. Brilliant though!
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Gazboy
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37,640 posts
81 months
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KB_S1 said: busta said: So let me get this straight. 1350 hp and they put that much effort into saving 6.8kg? It'll use the same weight in fuel in a minute. Why bother? 10.2kg so far. Plus doors, front wings and bonnet to go too. The biggest savings will be from the doors & tailgate, they are *really* heavy. This car should be 300kg lighter than mine. He's already got people PMing him for the full kit so it's probably paid for itself already.
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Gazboy
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81 months
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